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post office

noun as in location of mail service

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Once I was saying something down at the post office.

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At the post office, we checked out the 1938 Fletcher Martin mural of mail delivery.

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This particular center wasn’t responsible for final delivery—it sends already-labeled packages to smaller centers closer to customers, which hand them off to carriers like UPS, the post office or Amazon’s own delivery fleet.

"I'm quite capable of going to a different post office, petrol station, supermarket, but my doctor, my hospital... I'm going to have to change everything," she says.

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The attack took place months after Burns was freed early from a previous15-year jail term for shooting a woman during a post office robbery.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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